Last night I was riding home from my friends place to fix his car. I noticed my bike started bogging. Eventually it came to the point where my bike would die at every stop light. It was very hard to start I had to use the electric starter because the kickstart would not do it and I would gas out. After about 20 or so stop lights of doing this the bike came to a stop and would not start ever. I noticed #4 headers was cold. Luckily I had bought mini screw driver key chains a Philips, flathead and a square head. What I did to diagnose this is I first un screwed the the drain bolts to see if carb 4 had gas. Which it was. Then I opened the ignition cover and used the flat head to clean/scratch the points of any carbon or dirt that may have gotten in the way. By this I had that same friend that I helped with do a clutch flush on his car come over. I went to kick start the bike and it fired no misfire or anything. I turned it off and pulled plug #4. It was clean. So then I rode home with my friend following me and I made it. Come to this morning I sanded the points more to make sure it was clean, topped up the engine oil and rode to work. She ran with no hiccups or anything. I was pushing it in the highway and it ran beautiful.
Moral of the story.
Its really funny how things work out in life. If I hadn't spend that 3 $ screw driver key chain I wouldn't have had any way to clean the points and fixed the problem the road. And if I hadn't helped my friend do his clutch he would have made it to where I was and see if the plugs were wet. (I currently dont have a place to put the tool kit in the bike) I had a police ask if I needed a tow truck I told him no. He called for one anyway. The truck was there waiting and the whole time I kept telling myself "no way my bike is going on that thing ever ever ever". And clean your points!
